Re: [gembud] GEMPAK going away in 3-5 years?

["Robert Mullenax" <Robert.Mullenax@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In summary (time to end this topic), I realize that CSBF has always been 
a rather unique Unidata member in that we straddle the operational and 
research worlds..we do both.  I do not know how unique we are in the 
sense that we don't have a true CS person on staff.  I know I spent 
years trying to get pretty good at writing complex csh/sh scripts for 
McIDAS and GEMPAK in order for us to access data from remote locations 
like Antarctic.  That work could not have been done without the 
assistance of you Don, Tom, Chiz, Robb Kambic, Steve Emmerson,  Matt and 
everyone at SSEC and numerous folks from the various Unidata mailing 
lists.

All that I would ask (and maybe if there are other folks like me that 
are wearing 3 or 4 different hats and no being a programmer) is that 
Unidata provide some tools for us to use to transition all those scripts 
into whatever form we need to get IDV/new McIDAS/AWIPS2 to have the same 
capability.  I wouldn't anticipate any isuses on getting data decoding, 
GUI setups with any of those.  That has always been the easy part.  It's 
the customized stuff behind the scenes that always been most difficult.

Thanks again for the all input, and sorry if this topic grew out of 
hand.

Regards,
Robert Mullenax
CSBF/PSL/NMSU

Robert Mullenax
Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
Senior Meteorologist/Weather Systems Administrator
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